Why does Our Blessed Mother always ask for the Rosary?

FOR WORLD PEACE

"Say the Rosary every day, to obtain peace for the world." — Our Lady of Fatima

In his encyclical Mense Maio ("In the Month of May"), Pope Paul VI urged Christians to pray to Our Lady Queen of Peace for world peace. He laid special emphasis on the Rosary, "the prayer so dear to Our Lady and so highly recommended by the Supreme Pontiffs."

A MEANS FOR PRESERVING THE HOME

"There is no surer means of calling down God's blessings upon the family... than the daily recitation of the Rosary"

—Pope Pius XII

"If families will but listen to my message and give Our Lady ten minutes of their twenty-four hours by reciting the daily Family Rosary, I assure them that their homes will become, by God's grace, peaceful, prayerful places — little heavens, which God the Author of home life has intended they should be!" — Father Peyton

AS A READY AND EASY MEANS OF PRESERVING THE FAITH

"...We have elsewhere brought it to the attention of the devout Christian that not least among the advantages of the Rosary is the ready means it puts in his hands to nurture his faith, and to keep him from ignorance of his religion and the danger of error". — Pope Leo XIII

FOR COURAGE IN THE HARDSHIPS OF LIFE

"...a powerful means of renewing our courage will undoubtedly be found in the Holy Rosary..." — Pope Leo XIII